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This section includes 1708 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Indian Polity and Civics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Communalism and Globalisation is the work of .................... |
| A. | ahammed aijaz |
| B. | bipan chandra |
| C. | k.n.panikkar |
| D. | v.p.menon |
| Answer» B. bipan chandra | |
| 2. |
The demolition of the Babri Masjid on..............., 1992. |
| A. | december 6 |
| B. | december 4 |
| C. | december 3 |
| D. | december 8 |
| Answer» B. december 4 | |
| 3. |
In 1990 itself, there was major violence in .............. because ofAdvani's rath yatra. |
| A. | kerala |
| B. | gujarat |
| C. | bombay |
| D. | madya pradesh |
| Answer» C. bombay | |
| 4. |
It was from................, in September 1990, that LK Advanilaunched his Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra leaving a nationwide trail of violence in its wake. |
| A. | gujarat |
| B. | maharashtra |
| C. | delhi |
| D. | madya pradesh |
| Answer» B. maharashtra | |
| 5. |
Interethnic conflict has hit India at the highest levels, with PrimeMinister ............... assassinated in 1984 by Sikh body guards. |
| A. | indira gandhi |
| B. | rajive gandhi |
| C. | mahatma gandhi |
| D. | charan singh |
| Answer» B. rajive gandhi | |
| 6. |
Sri Lankans protested the presence of the IPKF, and the newly- elected Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa demandedits withdrawal, which was completed by March ............. |
| A. | 1970 |
| B. | 1980 |
| C. | 1983 |
| D. | 1990 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
On May 21, ................, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated and theLTTE was alleged to be the perpetrator. |
| A. | 1971 |
| B. | 1981 |
| C. | 1986 |
| D. | 1991 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 8. |
In 1996, India opened its Representative Office to the PalestineAuthority in Gaza, which later was shifted to ............. in 2003. |
| A. | ramallah |
| B. | egypt |
| C. | israel |
| D. | ladach |
| Answer» B. egypt | |
| 9. |
India was one of the first countries to recognize the State ofPalestine in.............. |
| A. | 1968 |
| B. | 1978 |
| C. | 1984 |
| D. | 1988 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
India was the first Non‐Arab State to recognize PLO as sole andlegitimate representative of the Palestinian people in............. |
| A. | 1947 |
| B. | 1957 |
| C. | 1964 |
| D. | 1974 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
WTO's current Director-General is Pascal Lamy, who leads a staffof over 600 people in............., Switzerland. |
| A. | geneva |
| B. | genoa |
| C. | ladach |
| D. | florence |
| Answer» B. genoa | |
| 12. |
In............., India voted against the partition of Palestine at theUnited Nations General Assembly. |
| A. | 1927 |
| B. | 1937 |
| C. | 1946 |
| D. | 1947 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
WTO officially commenced on 1 January ......... under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the GATT, which commenced in 1948. |
| A. | 1965 |
| B. | 1975 |
| C. | 1985 |
| D. | 1995 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
................provided global trade rules as well as a framework fortrade disputes from 1948 to 1994. |
| A. | gatt |
| B. | wto |
| C. | cento |
| D. | seato |
| Answer» B. wto | |
| 15. |
Indo-Pakistani War of .............Commonly known as Kargil War. |
| A. | 1969 |
| B. | 1972 |
| C. | 1992 |
| D. | 1999 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Indo-Pakistani War of ............. is also called the First KashmirWar. |
| A. | 1927 |
| B. | 1937 |
| C. | 1945 |
| D. | 1947 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territoryalong the 3,225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in ............. and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| A. | ladakh |
| B. | kargil |
| C. | burma |
| D. | tibet |
| Answer» B. kargil | |
| 18. |
India initiated a Policy in which it placed outposts along theborder, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier ............ in 1959. |
| A. | zhou enlai |
| B. | dalai lama |
| C. | yasser arafat |
| D. | mahmoud abbas |
| Answer» B. dalai lama | |
| 19. |
There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to .............. |
| A. | zhou enlai |
| B. | yasser arafat |
| C. | mahmoud abbas |
| D. | dalai lama |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian BorderConflict was a war between China and India that occurred in ........... |
| A. | 1952 |
| B. | 1956 |
| C. | 1959 |
| D. | 1962 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most powerful mass movement,started in ............., against the construction of huge dam on the Narmada river. |
| A. | 1965 |
| B. | 1975 |
| C. | 1982 |
| D. | 1985 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. |
| A. | 1956 |
| B. | 1966 |
| C. | 1976 |
| D. | 1986 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
On October 31, 1984 ............... was assassinated. |
| A. | indira gandhi |
| B. | rajiv gandhi |
| C. | morarji desai |
| D. | charan singh |
| Answer» B. rajiv gandhi | |
| 24. |
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned ....................... |
| A. | agricultural scientist |
| B. | historian |
| C. | capitalist |
| D. | chemist |
| Answer» B. historian | |
| 25. |
.............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural HistorySociety, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project. |
| A. | dr. salim ali |
| B. | prof. m. g. k. menon |
| C. | dr. m.s. swaminathan |
| D. | dalai lama |
| Answer» B. prof. m. g. k. menon | |
| 26. |
In ............. Smt. Indira Gandhi, the Honourable Prime Minister of India, approved the project, with the condition that the StateGovernment enact Legislation ensuring the necessary safeguards. |
| A. | 1948 |
| B. | 1958 |
| C. | 1968 |
| D. | 1978 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silentvalley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings. |
| A. | sugathakumari |
| B. | p.valsala |
| C. | o.n.v. kurup |
| D. | ravindranath tagore |
| Answer» B. p.valsala | |
| 28. |
In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study ofthe Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a Biosphere Reserve. |
| A. | orissa |
| B. | tamilnadu |
| C. | karnataka |
| D. | kerala |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River was identified as an ideal site for electricity generation. |
| A. | kunthipuzha |
| B. | narmada |
| C. | valapattanam |
| D. | bharathapuzha |
| Answer» B. narmada | |
| 30. |
The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley. |
| A. | kuntipuzha |
| B. | nila |
| C. | pamba |
| D. | periyar |
| Answer» B. nila | |
| 31. |
The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in............. |
| A. | 1945 |
| B. | 1955 |
| C. | 1965 |
| D. | 1985 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protectionof Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the ............ district of Kerala, India. |
| A. | kannur |
| B. | palakkad |
| C. | malappuram |
| D. | ernakulam |
| Answer» C. malappuram | |
| 33. |
The Appiko movement, started on September 8, 1983 by fiery activist .............. who was inspired by Sunderlal Bahugana’s Chipko movement in U.P. |
| A. | pandurang hegde |
| B. | sunderlal bahugana |
| C. | narendra modi |
| D. | dalai lama |
| Answer» B. sunderlal bahugana | |
| 34. |
In October .........., the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh workersheld a demonstration in Gopeshwar to protest against the policies of the Forest Department. |
| A. | 1931 |
| B. | 1941 |
| C. | 1951 |
| D. | 1971 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
The Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set upby Gandhian social worker, Chandi Prasad Bhatt in ................ |
| A. | gopeshwar |
| B. | uttarakhand |
| C. | mysore |
| D. | mylapore |
| Answer» B. uttarakhand | |
| 36. |
Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set upby Gandhian social worker, ............. in 1964. |
| A. | chandi prasad bhatt |
| B. | jayaprakash narayan |
| C. | sunderlal |
| D. | pandurang hegde |
| Answer» B. jayaprakash narayan | |
| 37. |
Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS), was set up ........... |
| A. | 1924 |
| B. | 1934 |
| C. | 1944 |
| D. | 1964 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
In .............. the Chipko Movement was awarded the RightLivelihood Award. |
| A. | 1947 |
| B. | 1957 |
| C. | 1967 |
| D. | 1987 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
On March 26, 1974, when a group of peasant women in Reni village, Hemwalghati, in Chamoli district, ............. acted to prevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department. |
| A. | uttarakhand |
| B. | rajasthan |
| C. | u.p. |
| D. | bengal |
| Answer» B. rajasthan | |
| 40. |
The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of .............., then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation. |
| A. | uttarakhand |
| B. | karnataka |
| C. | west bengal |
| D. | kerala |
| Answer» B. karnataka | |
| 41. |
The .............. movement is a movement that practiced the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being felled. |
| A. | chipko |
| B. | panther |
| C. | silent valley |
| D. | cdm |
| Answer» B. panther | |
| 42. |
Who founded Dalit Panther? |
| A. | namdeo dhasal |
| B. | dalai lama |
| C. | baburao bagul |
| D. | madara chennaiah |
| Answer» B. dalai lama | |
| 43. |
Baburao Bagul’s first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali(When I had Concealed My Caste), published in 1963, created a stir in ............. literature with its passionate depiction of a crude society. |
| A. | marathi |
| B. | bengali |
| C. | binary |
| D. | assamese |
| Answer» B. bengali | |
| 44. |
Baburao Bagul’s first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali(When I had Concealed My Caste), published in............, created a stir in Marathi literature with its passionate depiction of a crude society. |
| A. | 1913 |
| B. | 1933 |
| C. | 1953 |
| D. | 1963 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
............. first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali (When I had Concealed My Caste), published in 1963, created a stir in Marathi literature with its passionate depiction of a crudesociety. |
| A. | baburao bagul’s |
| B. | dalai lama |
| C. | madara chennaiah |
| D. | namdeo dhasal |
| Answer» B. dalai lama | |
| 46. |
Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was pioneer of Dalit writingsin ............... |
| A. | marathi |
| B. | malayalam |
| C. | hindi |
| D. | kannada |
| Answer» B. malayalam | |
| 47. |
The term "Dalit literature" came into use in ............., when thefirst conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha was held at Mumbai. |
| A. | 1918 |
| B. | 1928 |
| C. | 1948 |
| D. | 1958 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. |
Madara Chennaiah a Dalit Writer and an 11th-century cobbler- saint who lived in the reign of ...................... |
| A. | western chalukyas |
| B. | pandyas |
| C. | pallavas |
| D. | cholas |
| Answer» B. pandyas | |
| 49. |
One of the first Dalit writers was Madara Chennaiah, an 11th- century cobbler-saint who lived in the reign of ..................... |
| A. | western chalukyas |
| B. | vijayanagara |
| C. | bhamini |
| D. | mughal |
| Answer» B. vijayanagara | |
| 50. |
Who is called as the "father of Vachana poetry"? |
| A. | madara chennaiah |
| B. | dalai lama |
| C. | ambedkar |
| D. | r.c. datt |
| Answer» B. dalai lama | |